Hawthorne

Term Paper Title	Hawthorne
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Hawthorne

Andrew

Mr. Wing

English III, Period 4

November 23, 1999

Breaking out of Prison

Hawthorne�s view on life is wrong. He says that in the depths of human nature there is an inner world in which every human being is alone. Hawthorne�s background and they way he lived his life gave him this dark view on life. His father and grandfather did things that he did not like and Hawthorne tried to redeem the bad things they did and when he couldn�t he went into seclusion and explored his own heart. Every person is not the same as Hawthorne; I believe that with certain people their heart could be their prison but not the average person.
People are not caged by their heart, their heart shows what kind of person they are. It is similar to Emerson�s �golden possibility,� Hawthorne did not meet his golden possibility and this is why he looks on things so darkly. He doesn�t try to look at the good things in life, he tries to see what is wrong with people and explain why. He only looked at himself though and he did not have much to be happy for and this is why he felt like he was in a prison. Most people if they look inside themselves they are happy and do not dwell on such thin...

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